Pacific Rim (4K Ultra HD BD)

Action-packed movie that’s entertaining from start to finish.

This movie broke even at the domestic box office (meaning no sequel) but did incredibly well overseas (hopefully meaning sequel). I was skeptical going in but as it starred my boy Jax from Sons of Anarchy (Charlie Hunnam), I gave it a shot. I was not disappointed. This movie is incredibly good. It features the best elements of what I liked about the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and Godzilla franchises when I was a kid, then added in the badassness of Idris Elba and an action flick and blended it all together with the incredible visionary talents of Guillermo Del Toro. I mean, what did you expect? His name is Guillermo of the BULL. My wife hates sci-fi flicks, and she hates Godzilla as well as MMPR. I'm not really sure why I married her, now that I think about it. Anyways. She LOVED this movie as did I and everyone who saw it. I'm pretty sure the only people who hated this movie are the folks who showed up thinking Pacific Rim was a Jacques Cousteau underwater documentary. I won't give spoilers of any nature but the plot is essentially monsters rise from under the Pacific ocean. They kick our ass. The President of the US was a Power Rangers fan so he has a bunch of Megazords built. We put two pilots in each. Megazords then proceed to slug it out with Godzilla. Except Godzilla brought his friends Mechagodzilla, Mothra and Ghidorah. So the Megazord has to call in the Dragonzord and the UN of zords. Its robots slugging it out with giant monsters. It's SAMCRO piloting a robot slugging it out with monsters so bad that Godzilla has nightmares about them. What else do you need? And, honestly for you film critics who want plot, well it has a solid plot. I'm great at figuring out a plot before it's revealed. This one was too fun and too functional to do so. Very, very well written. The robots fighting monsters was just a perk of a well written, well directed, and incredibly visually stunning film. Give it a shot. Seriously, you won't be disappointed unless you're a fuddy dud.

Great movie!! Watch it, you won't be disappointed!

That this movie had such a poor showing at the U.S. box office is a total shame. I dare anyone to watch the first hour of say any of the Transformer or Fast-and-something-something-Furious films and then the first hour of this flick and tell me they really belong in the same "summer blockbuster" category. That being said, this is a Guillermo del Toro film and with it comes his blending of drama, mysticism, mythical-demonism and tongue-in-cheek social commentary. If you loved Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy/Hellboy 2, or Chronos AND you like the anime/Japanese-SciFi humanity vs. BIG monsters genre, then you're going to love this film... and chances are good, even if you don't, you'll get sucked into it anyway. The acting is acceptable for the cast he had to work with... The leads give solid performances, the secondary roles are a bit caricatured at best, but that's also a del Toro signature. My biggest gripe was that a number of secondary characters looks just like the male lead... to the point that I got confused a few times as to which was which. The special effects are really quite amazing... all the detail and high-octane ballast of a typical Michael Bay Boo(b)m-fest, with none of the empty after taste. del Toro's use of continuity shoots and live-set/green-screen blending could teach the folks at Skywalker Ranch a thing or two, as well. He get's really great performances and dynamism in his action sequences by seamlessly blending real action with computer-animation in a way that makes the audience care about what's going on in the scene and not just blind/deafened by it. Pros: 1) Structure - The film actually has 3 acts and each one establishes more back-story to the three main characters and the cloud of secondary and minor characters. 2) Character-driven - By the end of the film, I genuinely care about all of the characters and the challenges they face entering the final act, rare in a sci-fi action flick. 3) Hail to The Geeks - Instead of just making the geeky characters of the story comedic foils or even worse, conduits for deus ex machina, the geeks of this story play a critical part in both the development of the main plot and the enriching of the whole world the story establishes. 4) Length - This is a long film... it takes its time building up and then takes its time delivering the final show-down, but it delivers and delivers quite well. 5) Romance that doesn't suck - The one romantic thread in the film doesn't devolved into an obligatory sex scene or love-at-first-sight idiocy... it's based on a bond between two people that grows as the story develops and has a solid, mutual basis of existing between them (both characters having survived terrible experiences and still healing from them). 6) Creativity - The elements all seem very cliche at first... Big monsters, Big robots, FIGHT! But the more the story expands the more del Toro's extreme attention to details and unique styling become a center piece to the film... He's oozing with creative genre-bending juice and this film is like an entire fruitbasket of it. Cons: 1) Pace... This is a long movie and at times I felt like it was having to go out of its way to provide narrative exposition over weaving critical back-plot points into the story development. 2) Pace... There are times I was glad I was watching this with a rewind button. This could be due to del Toro's Spanish-speaking background where rapid-fire dialog, full of sub-context and parallel conversations is a norm (not being racist/culturally insensitive here, just noting the nature of the language and how it's spoken). While I enjoy this realistic banter, round-robin approach to dialog (think anything Joss Whedon has produced), it can make it hard to keep track of characters and sub-plot. Here's to hoping this flick has a nice long sub-culture existence in years to come!

Great movie and a good seller 👍 The package came like new and works great. I'd highly recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys a fun action film. It's one of the best out there!

This is one of the coolest monster movies in years. This movie is directed by the visionary director, Guillermo Del torro (HellBoy, Blade 2). The movie has tons of special effects, visual effects and monster sets that will take your breath away and is a lot bigger than Transformers.Every giant robot has been designed uniquely suiting to the different countries. Excellent detailing has been taken care for the animated Robots and the Kaiju monsters. Charlie Hunnam, Idris elba give some sparkling performances in the film and some comic relief from actors Charlie day, Burn Gorman and Ron Perlman. As for the DVD package it has two DVDs inside; One has the movie itself which is a DVD-9 disc and the other disc which is a DVD-5 contains a host of special features including the making of the film and lots more. The movie disc packs an excellent Audio/Video and has a great quality ideal for home theatre applications. Thanks to Amazon for the great packing and extremely fast delivery as always!!Good work Amazon!!!

Che altro dire di questo film, è bellissimo, uno dei migliori del 2013, effetti speciali fantastici, storia semplice ma bella, vedere sti robottoni ENORMI prendere a mazzate e distruggere gli alieni e viceversa è uno spettacolo che vale il prezzo del Bluray !! Il 3D merita davvero !! finalmente è in 16/9 e con il mio videoproiettore si vede ENORME !!uno dei 3D migliori mai visti, lo metto vicino a Avatar, Titanic 3D, Transformers 3 3D e Hugo Cabret, la profondità è eccellente in tutte le scene, le immagini non sono mai troppo scure, anche con poca luce il 3D è sempre spettacolare e molto spinto. l' Audio purtroppo è un Dolby Digital 5.1, fa il suo dovere ma un dts HD sarebbe stato tutta un' altra cosa, ho dovuto mettere il volume dell' amplificatore quasi al massimo. Film : 9 video 3D : 10 Audio : 7,5 Lo consiglio vivamente a tutti gli amanti dei film d' azione, in 3D poi è davvero grandioso !!

Tout est dans le titre!!! Le meilleur blockbuster de 2013!!! Même si on attend la suite du Hobbit avec impatience, on a affaire ici au spectacle le plus généreux que cette année nous a donné, en plus le scénario pour une fois est cohérent et pas complètement à la ramasse comme dans Transformers 3!!! Du cinéma vraiment spectaculaire, un vrai film d'action avec des effets spéciaux visuels absoluments magnifiques, des héros vraiment héroïques enfin vraiment tout ce que j'attend de ce genre de film quoi!!! De l'action, du spectaculaire, un truc à peu près cohérent, des héros que j'aime et surtout une vision artistique cohérente, et pour ça Del Toro est un des meilleurs réalisateurs vivants, le gage de qualité artistique absolu qu'on puisse donner à un film!!! Et là les amis il s'est vraiment laché!!! N'allez pas voir ce film en pensant au labyrinthe de Pan, pensez plutôt à Hell Boy 2... En fait j'ai envie de dire que ce film est a réserver à tout les vieux gamins (et ce n'est pas péjoratif) qui ont rêvé en voyant la Guerre des Etoiles et Jurrasik Parc, à ceux qui ont envie de l'aspect montagnes russes du cinéma populaire. Ce film est vraiment une réussite et on en a enfin pour son argent! Et ce n'est pas rien de le dire parce que ça fait un moment que j'attend de voir un truc qui m'épate en rentrant dans un cinéma!!! Pour ce qui est de la présente édition Blu-ray que dire sinon que l'image est vraiment superbe et que le son n'est pas en reste et que pour une fois la 3D n'est pas un gadget rajouté, les effets étant ici particulièrement bien intégrés au film (à la Titanic 3D). Un véritable bonheur! C'est probablement la meilleure édition francophone disponible pour le moment et je vous conseille vivement de vous jeter dessus.

Für mich ist der Film einer der besten überhaupt. Das CGI ist ein richtiges Brett was bis heute keiner mehr nachgemacht hat in dieser Qualität. Zudem in 4K und HDR noch geiler. Auch das HDR ist mit das beste was ich je gesehen habe. Dieser Film auf einem Oled TV ist der absolute Wahnsinn